Abstract
We investigate the problem of equilibrium computation for “large” n-player games where each player has two pure strategies. Large games have a Lipschitz-type property that no single player’s utility is greatly affected by any other individual player’s actions. In this paper, we assume that a player can change another player’s payoff by at most 1/n by changing her strategy. We study algorithms having query access to the game’s payoff function, aiming to find ε-Nash equilibria. We seek algorithms that obtain ε as small as possible, in time polynomial in n. Our main result is a randomised algorithm that achieves ε approaching 1/8 in a completely uncoupled setting, where each player observes her own payoff to a query, and adjusts her behaviour independently of other players’ payoffs/actions. O(log n) rounds/queries are required. We also show how to obtain a slight improvement over 1/8, by introducing a small amount of communication between the players.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Algorithmic Game Theory - 9th International Symposium, SAGT 2016, Proceedings |
Editors | Martin Gairing, Rahul Savani |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 3-14 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783662533536 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 9th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2016 - Liverpool, United Kingdom Duration: Sep 19 2016 → Sep 21 2016 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 9928 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
Other | 9th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2016 |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Liverpool |
Period | 9/19/16 → 9/21/16 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016.